Aguero – who became City’s all-time top goalscorer this season – reportedly feels his achievements with the club and his efforts to adapt his game to suit Guardiola’s unique style is being taken for granted, and ultimately believes the Catalan coach doesn’t respect him.

Last year, you may remember numerous reports claiming Aguero was growing increasingly unhappy under Guardiola, who demanded the striker make changes to his game.

Things then got even worse for the Argentinian at the start of 2017, when he lost his place up front to young hotshot Gabriel Jesus.

Aguero is unhappy again.

– same as last season– doesn’t feel Guardiola respects him– Khaldoon told him things would change in LA (big)– Aguero decided things haven’t changed– Pep says he wants Aguero to stay and has no problem with him, but SA doesn’t sense that

It was all doom and gloom over the summer, but his place in the side looked fairly assured until only recently, when the 29-year-old found himself being regularly rotated by the manager – which meant he was left on the bench for the Manchester derby and the Champions League clash with Napoli.

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